A doll for throwing poems Mary Jo Bang
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota Graywolf Press [2017]Copyright date: © 2017Description: 76 Seiten IIlustrationen 23 cmContent type:- Text
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- 9781555977818
- 811/.54 23
- PS3552.A47546
- 17.83
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks | F (Affiliated) | F:PS3552.A47546 A6 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2023-6008 |
"A Doll for Throwing ... takes its title from the Bauhaus artist Alma Siedhoff-Buscher's Wurfpuppe, a flexible and durable woven doll that, if thrown, would land with grace. A ventriloquist is also said to "throw" her voice into a doll that rests on the knee. Bang's prose poems in this fascinating book create a speaker who had been a part of the Bauhaus school in Germany a century ago and who had also seen the school's collapse when it was shut by the Nazis in 1933. Since this speaker is not a person but only a construct, she is also equally alive in the present, and gives voice to the conditions of both time periods: nostalgia, xenophobia, misogyny, and political extremism. The art and life of the Bauhaus photographer Lucia Moholy echoes across these poems--the end of her marriage, the loss of her negatives, and her effort to continue to make work and be known for having made it"--Page 4 of cover
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